"blue fly" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: blue flies [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} blue fly (plural blue flies)
  1. A blue dipteran fly, especially the bluebottle, Calliphora vomitoria. Categories (lifeform): Oestroid flies

Inflected forms

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